What, if...?

Kitaro, F. Burzis favourite artist

Imagine you had a team of 20 programmers, 4 designers, a couple of evangelists, usability experts and quality assurance, etc.. If you wanted to doing a completely new CMS, what would be different from phpNuke? What would remain the same? Where would be your focus?

My absolute decision should be that we'll not move to OOP (Object Oriented Programming). I learned that the use of objects for dynamic generated heavy content isn't the way to go, at least by using PHP. I'll also focus on the corporate world, but I'll change 10 of those 20 programmers to security specialists.

Did I miss any important roles?

Maybe a marketing team

If you wouldn't be able to program. Which would be your current CMS if there wasn't a phpNuke? ...if there weren't any phpNuke derivates? ... if there weren't any open source / free CMSes?

Maybe I would be using something from Macromedia

If you'd wanted to hack a current CMS to be the way you like it: Which one would that be (which is not a phpNuke derivate)?

An answer I can't give you properly, since I don't know other CMS code. But I see myself doing heavy tests on each one and then looking at their source code. If I can find something usable and easy understandable, that application will catch my attention.

If you could rewind 5 years, what would you do differently?

Maybe start PHP-Nuke from scratch and not based on any other application.

If you could rewind 10 years, what would you do differently?

Will start to develop PHP-Nuke. It’s 5 years old now, if it reaches 10 years instead I think that I'll feel more comfortable than now.

If you would be reborn, what would you like to be?

I would like to be a movie director

If you'd started a community from scratch: Where would you begin?

From a piece of paper, planning what I'll offer and how

If you'd started a community from scratch: What would be reasons for using a portal, what would be reasons for a forum, for a blog, something else (what?)?

I would add anything imaginable and always the reason would be: my users

If you'd started a community from scratch: How would you get people to contribute?

Surveys, contests, from time to time openning a controversy, etc.

If you had 5 wishes...? Which one would these be?

First wish: I want only 2 wishes

Second wish: Anything that I wish becomes a reality